All Posts Tagged With: "Putin"
Yulia Latynina on Russia’s Squandered Billions
Award-winning Russian journalist Yulia Latynina discusses what happens when a country spends it’s money on presidential palaces instead of infrastructure and roads. An exclusive from theotherrussia.org
Mar 26, 2010 | Continued
Day of Protest Held in Cities Throughout Russia
Fewer protesters than organizers had expected turned out at opposition protests across Russia on Saturday, as regional authorities took a variety of measures to keep people off the streets.
Mar 21, 2010 | Continued
Protests Gaining Visibility, Attracting More Russians
As thousands of Russians get ready for an upcoming series of massive protests throughout the country, a new poll indicates that such protests are gaining higher visibility and attracting more people to take part.
Mar 19, 2010 | Continued
Kasparov Discusses Chess, Politics in Georgia Visit
During a visit this week to a friend and chess colleague in Georgia, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov met with Georgian leadership and journalists to discuss the state of Russia-Georgia relations.
Mar 18, 2010 | Continued
A Historical Dead End: Putin Must Go
An online petition demanding the resignation of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has gathered thousands of signatures in just over a week, and presents a scathing indictment of the country’s current state of affairs.
Mar 18, 2010 | Continued
Khodorkovsky Calls Putin to Court
Imprisoned oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, currently in Moscow facing charges in a second case against him, has issued a series of questions that he demands Prime Minister Putin answer directly in court.
Mar 17, 2010 | Continued
Unpaid Olympic Workers Continue Hunger Strike
Construction workers hired for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are continuing a hunger strike taken up last Thursday in protest to their contractors’ failure to pay their wages in more than three months.
Mar 16, 2010 | Continued
Electoral Commission Criticized for Double Standard
In the final days leading up to Russia’s March 14 regional elections, the Central Electoral Commission is banning Kremlin-loyal opposition party A Just Russia from picturing its own leader on a series of leaflets.
Mar 11, 2010 | Continued
$33.8 Billion Required to Save Monotowns
Russia’s Ministry for Regional Development is estimating that about $33.8 billion would be required to modernize one hundred of the country’s struggling single-industry towns.
Mar 10, 2010 | Continued
Dymovsky Released from Detention Center
Russia’s whistleblowing ‘YouTube Cop,’ Aleksei Dymovsky, has been released from a Krasnodar detention center, although not before prison guards took what the former officer called “some small measure of revenge.”
Mar 8, 2010 | Continued